Francis Thomas Bratranek

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Francis Thomas Bratranek

Francis Thomas Bratranek / František Tomáš Bratranek (born November 3, 1815 in Jedovnice , † August 2, 1884 in Brno ) was an Austrian philosopher , Germanist , literary historian and university professor .

Life

Bratranek attended elementary school and grammar school in Brno and entered the Augustinian monastery in Old Brno in 1834 . He began his studies at the Franzens University in Olomouc (see Palacký University in Olomouc ) before Abbot Cyrill Napp sent him to the University of Vienna for further training . He studied philosophy and received his doctorate in 1839. In Vienna he made the acquaintance of Ottilie von Goethe , the daughter-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , and her sons Walther and Wolfgang .

After completing his doctorate, he returned to Brno and worked as the abbot's secretary and from 1841 to 1843 as assistant to Ignác Jan Hanuš at the University of Lviv . After František Matouš Klácel had been withdrawn from the professorship because of his free-thinking views and suspicion of Pan-Slavism , Bratranek was called back to Brno in 1844 and followed Klácel as professor of philosophy at the episcopal philosophical institute.

Bratranek used vacation trips to neighboring countries to get in touch with leading figures in science and culture, such as Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg , Theodor Mundt and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense . During his travels he also bought specialist literature that was banned in Austria.

During the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire, he cooperated with the Czech-Moravian Brotherhood and was in contact with Klácel, Božena Němcová , Ignác Jan Hanuš and Jan Ivan Helcelet . In June 1848, together with Hanuš and Helcelet, he was an eyewitness to the intervention of Alfred II zu Windisch-Grätz in Prague and tried to convince Klácel to participate in the Frankfurt National Assembly .

In 1851 he became associate professor and in 1853 full professor of German literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow . From 1864 to 1865 Bratranek was Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and from 1866 to 1867 Rector of the University.

He spent the last years of his life from 1881 until his death in the Augustinian monastery in Old Brno.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the development of the concept of beauty , 1841
  • Handbook of the history of German literature , 1850
  • Contributions to the Aesthetics of the Plant World , Leipzig 1853
  • Aesthetic Studies , Vienna 1853
  • Goethe's scientific correspondence I-III , Vienna 1874–1876
  • Goethe's correspondence with the von Humboldt brothers , Leipzig 1876
  • Goethe's Egmont and Schiller's Wallenstein. A parallel of the poets; Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart 1892

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Francis Thomas Bratranek on phil.muni.cz , accessed on 27 March 2016
personal data
SURNAME Bratranek, Francis Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bratranek, František Tomáš; Bratranek, Franz Thomas; Bratránek, Frantisek Tomás; Bratranek, Franciszek Tomasz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher, Germanist, literary historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Jedovnice
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1884
Place of death Brno